Ted’s main research focus is African economic development, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions on local collective action; interactions between health, education, environment, and productivity for the poor; and methods for transparent social science research. He has conducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. Many of the datasets used in his research are posted online, either on the relevant article page (on this website) or on Dataverse.
Education as Liberation?
Willa Friedman, Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, and Rebecca Thornton
2016
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalPolitical Economy and Conflict
This paper studies the political and social impacts of increased education by utilizing a randomized girls’ merit scholarship programme in Kenya that raised test scores and secondary scho
The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela’s Maisanta
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, Daniel Ortega, and Francisco Rodriguez
2011
Published Paper
Political Economy and Conflict
In 2004, the Hugo Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters who had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to ide
Social Engineering: Evidence from a Suite of Take-up Experiments in Kenya
Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Sendhil Mullainathan, Clair Null, and Alix Peterson Zwane
2011
Working Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimateHealthEducation and Human Capital
Many effective health products and behaviors available through the private market are not widely adopted in less developed countries. For example, fewer than 10% of households in our Kenyan study ar
Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation, and Property Rights Institutions
Michael Kremer, Jessica Leino, Edward Miguel, and Alix Peterson
2011
Published Paper
African DevelopmentEnvironment and ClimateHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
Using a randomized evaluation in Kenya, we measure health impacts of spring protection, an investment that improves source water quality. We also estimate households' valuation of spring protect
Government Transfers and Political Support
Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel, and Andrea Vigorito
2011
Published Paper
HealthEducation and Human CapitalOtherPolitical Economy and Conflict
This paper estimates the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program as
The Long-run Impact of Bombing Vietnam
Edward Miguel and Gerard Roland
2011
Published Paper
OtherPolitical Economy and Conflict
We investigate the impact of U.S. bombing on later economic development in Vietnam. The Vietnam War featured the most intense bombing campaign in military history and had massive humanitarian costs. W
Re-examining Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict
Edward Miguel and Shanker Satyanath
2011
Published Paper
Environment and ClimatePolitical Economy and Conflict
Miguel, Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti (2004), henceforth MSS, show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in Africa, using annual rainfall variation as an IV for growth. Anton
Civil War Exposure and Violence
Edward Miguel, Sebastian M. Saiegh, and Shanker Satyanath
2011
Published Paper
OtherPolitical Economy and Conflict
In recent years scholars have begun to focus on the consequences of individuals' exposure to civil war, including its severe health and psychological consequences. Our innovation is to move beyo
Being Surveyed Can Change Later Behavior and Related Parameter Estimates
Alix Peterson Zwane, Jonathan Zinman, Eric Van Dusen, William Pariente, Clair Null, Edward Miguel, Michael Kremer, Dean S. Karlan, Richard Hornbeck, Xavier Gine, Esther Duflo, Florencia Devoto, Bruno
2011
Published Paper
Environment and ClimateHealthEducation and Human CapitalOtherResearch Methodology
Does completing a household survey change the later behavior of those surveyed? In three field studies of health and two of microlending, we randomly assigned subjects to be surveyed about health an
Civil War
Christopher Blattman and Edward Miguel
2010
Published Paper
Political Economy and Conflict
Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. Yet while civil war is central to many nations' development, it has stood at the periphery of economics research and teaching
War and Local Collective Action in Sierra Leone
John Bellows and Edward Miguel
2009
Published Paper
African DevelopmentPolitical Economy and Conflict
We study the brutal 1991-2002 Sierra Leone civil war using nationally representative household data on conflict experiences, postwar economic outcomes, local politics and collective action. Individu
Deworming and Development: Asking the Right Questions, Asking the Questions Right
Donald A. P. Bundy, Michael Kremer, Hoyt Bleakley, Matthew C. H. Jukes, and Edward Miguel
2009
Published Paper
African DevelopmentHealthEducation and Human CapitalResearch Methodology
Two billion people are infected with intestinal worms. In many areas, the majority of schoolchildren are infected, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for school-based mass deworming.